Developmental Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Developmental Psychology explores the patterns and processes of human growth and change throughout the lifespan, from infancy through adulthood. The course examines physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development, considering both genetic and environmental influences. Students learn key theories and research methods in the field, analyze milestones and variations in development, and discuss how various factors such as culture, family, and education shape an individuals trajectory. Emphasis is placed on understanding normative development as well as challenges that can arise at different life stages.
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Psychology From Inquiry to Understanding 2nd Australia Edition by Scott O. Lilienfeld
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Chapter 1: Science and Pseudoscience in Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following logical fallacies is like a self-serving bias because we assume they apply to other people's information processing more often than our own?
A)Bandwagon fallacy
B)Either-or fallacy
C)Emotional reasoning fallacy
D)Not me fallacy
Answer: D
Q2) Recall from your text that researchers gave students false feedback about their abilities to distinguish between false and real suicide notes. At the conclusion of the study, the researchers informed the students that their feedback was in no way related to their actual performance. However, on a subsequent task where the students had to estimate their performance on a similar task, they used this false feedback to guide their estimates. This is an example of
A)belief perseverance.
B)confirmation bias.
C)hindsight bias.
D)overconfidence.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) Dr Potter, an English professor, is curious about his students' attitudes towards one of his favourite books. What research method is he most likely to use to gather this information?
A)Case study
B)Survey
C)Experiment
D)Naturalistic observation
Answer: B
Q2) When asked if there are more ice-cream cones sold in November or July, Mary answers November immediately. She is surprised to find out that there is little to no difference between the two months in terms of ice-cream-cone sales. Mary's error is most clearly an example of
A)imaginary correlation.
B)commonsense.
C)superstitions.
D)illusory correlation.
Answer: D
Q3) According to the authors, many superstitious behaviours result from ________.
Answer: illusory correlation
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Chapter 3: Biological Psychology
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Q1) Which structure is like a locked door that only certain neurotransmitter keys can unlock?
A)Synapses
B)Receptor sites
C)Neural chiasms
D)Response terminals
Answer: B
Q2) When a(n)________ ________ occurs, its motion begins near the cell body and works its way down towards the axon terminals.
Answer: action potential
Q3) Samantha's doctor is concerned that Samantha may have a brain tumour. Which method of neuroimaging should he use to detect the tumour?
A)EEG
B)CT scan
C)MRI
D)PET scan
Answer: C
Q4) ________ is the creation of new cells in the adult brain. Answer: Neurogenesis
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The white part of the eye is the A)pupil.
B)retina.
C)fovea.
D)sclera.
Q2) We are able to distinguish pleasant from disgusting smells and tastes because of the contribution of the ________, the emotional centre of the brain.
A)brainstem
B)cerebellum
C)thalamus
Q3) ________ processing is conceptually driven and influenced by our beliefs and expectations.
A)Bottom-up
B)Parallel
C)Top-down
D)Sensory
Q4) The sensory receptors associated with vision are located in the ________.
Q5) Explain why food tastes different when we have a cold versus when we do not.
Q6) People who see less than all of the colours are said to be ________.
Q7) The wave frequency of a sound is what we refer to as its ________.
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Chapter 5: Consciousness
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Q1) Although he knows that it is wrong, Sean has a crush on his new stepmum. He dreams of the two of them running away together and living happily ever after. What aspect of dreaming does this represent?
A)Activation-synthesis
B)Repressed desires
C)Wish fulfilment
D)Dream-work
Q2) The thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and experiences that occur during age regression or past-life regression are
A)always traumatic.
B)often accurate.
C)based in fact.
D)educated guesses.
Q3) Drugs derived from the opium poppy are called ________.
A)stimulants
B)depressants
C)narcotics
D)psychogenic
Q4) The most commonly reported sleep problem is ________.
Q5) Design an intervention to help a person who is complaining of insomnia.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between a CS and a UCS when discussing conditioned taste aversions?
A)The delay between the CS and the UCS can be as long as six or even eight hours.
B)The CS must immediately precede the UCS or the conditioning will not take place.
C)The UCS and the CS must be paired together several times for the conditioning to take place.
D)The CS will lead to a great amount of stimulus generalisation because the UCS will be similar to many different stimuli.
Q2) Which of the following is true concerning operant conditioning principles?
A)Chaining involves reinforcing behaviours that come closer to the target behaviour.
B)Fading involves gradually decreasing the frequency of reinforcement for "not-exactly-right" behaviours.
C)Shaping involves delivering punishment for unwanted behaviours.
D)Chaining involves the shaping of the behaviour by use of punishment and reinforcement.
Q3) ________ suggested that aggression is learned by watching aggressive models.
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) The levels-of-processing model proposed by Craik and Lockhart (1972)has been criticised because it is really impossible to determine how deeply a memory has been processed, so there is no way to truly and scientifically prove or disprove the theory. This should remind you of which principle of critical thinking noted in your text?
A)Falsifiability
B)Extraordinary claims
C)Ruling out rival hypotheses
D)Correlation versus causation
Q2) The tendency to remember the items that came at the end of a presented list is called the ________ effect.
A)recency
B)primacy
C)locus
D)semantic
Q3) Which of the following situations is most likely to create a flashbulb memory?
A)Watching a favourite movie for the 15th time
B)Playing tennis with a friend
C)Finding out that one or one's partner is pregnant
D)Attending a basketball game with one's father and grandfather
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Reasoning and Language
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Q1) Provide an example of how cognitive economy benefits you.
Q2) Which of the following do you think would be most applicable to a gambler who is betting on a football game?
A)The availability heuristic
B)The representativeness heuristic
C)The confirmation bias
D)The hindsight bias
Q3) ________ speculated that thinking operates as a form of internal speech.
A)John B. Watson
B)Noam Chomsky
C)Benjamin Whorf
D)B.F. Skinner
Q4) Language is a very complex form of communication that separates humans from other animal groups. For this reason, ________ theorists believe that language must offer humans an adaptive advantage.
A)psychoanalytic
B)cognitive
C)evolutionary
D)behaviourist
Q5) ________ help us draw conclusions and solve problems in a "fast and frugal" way.
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and Iq Testing
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Q1) Who is engaged in abstract thinking?
A)Susie, who says that most apples are coloured red
B)Benito, who says the sun might explode one day
C)Gene, who argues that the Red Sox are better than the Yankees this year
D)Marlita, who says her favourite television show is Hannah Montana
Q2) The distinction between fluid intelligence and crystallised intelligence was first postulated by
A)James McKeen Cattell and Louis Thurstone.
B)Robert Sternberg and Howard Gardner.
C)Raymond Cattell and John Horn.
D)Charles Spearman and William Stern.
Q3) This person devised a simple formula for calculating an index of intelligence, or intelligence quotient (IQ).
A)Theo Simon
B)Wilhelm Stern
C)Franz Gall
D)Louis Thurstone
Q4) Based on your understanding of family, twin, and adoption studies, provide examples of findings that would support the claim that intelligence is chiefly genetically determined.
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Chapter 10: Human Development
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Q1) The Carmichaels do not believe in punishing their children; instead, they shape their children's behaviours by praising them and showering them with affection. This parenting style most closely resembles
A)authoritarian parenting.
B)permissive parenting.
C)uninvolved parenting.
D)authoritative parenting.
Q2) Gail has just turned 53 and is beginning menopause. Gail is likely to begin experiencing
A)a significant loss of appetite.
B)a significant loss of physical energy.
C)depression.
D)hot flushes.
Q3) Ken is able to perform mathematical operations only if he can use real objects and familiar examples in working up his answers. Ken is in Piaget's ________ stage.
A)sensorimotor
B)preoperational
C)concrete operational
D)formal operations
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Chapter 11: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) "Look, Mum, she is not really happy; you can see it in her eyes!" cries Amelia's little sister. What might this sharp little four-year-old have spotted?
A)A masked reaction
B)A Duchenne smile
C)A Pan Am smile
D)A forced smile
Q2) Hanging out with friends with the same hobbies can best be explained by the ________ principle of relationship formation.
A)proximity
B)similarity
C)reciprocity
D)serendipity
Q3) Johnny just passed a note to Kelsey in math class. The note says that his friend Jake has a crush on her. What idea suggests that Kelsey will now find Jake more attractive?
A)Similarity
B)Reciprocity
C)Proximity
D)Desirability
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Chapter 12: Stress, Coping and Health
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Q1) Adena looks on the bright side of life. When a situation is not going well, she is able to bring to light something positive. This is known as ________.
A)optimism
B)pessimism
C)rumination
D)self-enhancement
Q2) The fact that hassles can be used to predict psychological adjustment even when major life events are removed from the equation demonstrates which of the following concepts in this chapter?
A)Correlation versus causation
B)Replicability
C)Ruling out rival hypotheses
D)Occam's Razor
Q3) The field of ________ studies the effects of psychological factors such as stress, emotions, thinking, and behaviour on the immune system.
A)social psychology
B)organic medicine
C)psychoneuroimmunology
D)interactive psychology
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology
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Q1) Georgina was coming home from work and could not help noticing a young woman who seemed to be driving in a reckless manner. She immediately wondered if the girl was in an emergency or if something important was going on to make her drive like that. Gianna just made a(n)________.
A)internal attribution
B)dispositional attribution
C)situational attribution
D)impression attribution
Q2) ________ theory proposes that we don't really change our attitudes, but that we report that we have done so to make our behaviours appear consistent with our attitudes.
A)Self-perception
B)Cognitive dissonance
C)Impression management
D)Implicit egotism
Q3) Discuss bystander nonintervention and what factors influence intervention.
Q4) ________ refers to the tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influences on others' behaviour.
Q5) ________ is helping others for unselfish reasons.
Q6) ________ is an emphasis on group unanimity at the expense of critical thinking.
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Chapter 14: Cross-Cultural Psychology
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Q1) Oberg's concept of culture shock is based on a number of symptoms. Which of these is not one of these symptoms?
A)A sense of loss and feelings of deprivation in relation to friends, status, profession and possessions
B)Sleep disturbances, nightmares, waking "flashbacks" of events
C)Confusion in role-expectations, values, feelings and identity
D)Feelings of impotence due to not being able to cope with a new environment
Q2) Progress towards provision of culturally appropriate mental health interventions requires specific ________ and development of mental health professionals
Q3) Generally, research into in-group and out-group perception and relationships produces very mixed results. Some of the studies show consistent patterns, but Ward, Bochner and Furnham, criticise the results because they are drawn from a small range of multicultural societies and are based on generally ethnocentric perceptions of acculturation. Upon which principle of scientific thinking is this criticism based?
A)Correlation versus causation
B)Occam's Razor
C)Testability
D)Replicability
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Chapter 15: Personality
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Q1) The statistical tool of ________ is most important to the trait theory of personality.
Q2) Mike and Elizabeth have a new baby. If you wanted to see what she will be like as an adult, where might you focus your attention?
A)Examine the frequency of interactions between the parents and the child.
B)Observe Mike and Elizabeth's basic personalities.
C)Look at the friends she makes growing up and their respective personalities.
D)Wait until the baby has a sibling and look at the various activities they engage in together.
Q3) In contrast to Freud's theory, the neo-Freudians placed more importance on the role of ________ in achieving healthy personality development.
Q4) The most well-known humanistic theorist was ________.
A)Sigmund Freud
B)Carl Rogers
C)Carl Jung
D)Alfred Adler
Q5) An examination of a single person's unique characteristics is at the heart of the ________ approach to studying personality.
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Chapter 16: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Contrast the demonic and moral treatment approaches of mental illness.
Q2) During the day, Barb suffers from frequent, unwanted thoughts that she has left her front door unlocked and recurrent images that all her belongings have been taken. These thoughts and images are what psychologists refer to as a(n)________.
A)compulsion
B)delusion
C)hallucination
D)obsession
Q3) Any behaviour that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life is considered abnormal because it creates
A)deviance
B)distress
C)disapproval
D)impairment
Q4) What are some important criticisms of the DSM-5 as a diagnostic tool for psychological disorders? Be sure to elaborate on your answers.
Q5) Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz would argue that the entire concept of mental illness is a(n)________.
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Chapter 17: Psychological and Biological Treatments
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Q1) Critics of empirically supported treatments are concerned that
A)cognitive-behavioural therapy will be used at the expense of more effective treatments because it is cheaper.
B)insufficient data exists for appropriately distinguishing between superior and inferior forms of psychotherapeutic treatments.
C)psychiatrists and psychologists will eventually be forced to only treat mental health problems via psychopharmacotherapy.
D)the scientific method is not the best approach to take for establishing what best treatment practices are for the various psychological disorders.
Q2) ________ therapy is a treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions.
Q3) Systematic desensitisation works on the principle of ________.
Q4) Wallace is forced to confront his fear of germs by cleaning the private bathroom in his psychotherapist's office. Wallace's doctor is using ________ therapy to extinguish his fear.
Q5) Many researchers would argue that inclusion of a therapy on a list of ________ indicates that it had demonstrated treatment efficacy
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